All Ts

It's not about activity. There are people are perfectly active but should be told to fuck off.

Originally I was gonna make a joke thread about demoting people and give them psych evals, but I will be slightly more serious. 99.999999999999% of the current staff team does absolutely nothing. SG, even if it pisses people off should flush these people it's mistakenly picked up down the bowl. Picking Dominic back up is okay because even if he's going to tell you all to go fuck yourselves in a few months for a semi-human reason or leaves because he has a life- atleast he cares enough to come back & have some kind of a real display of a plan. That's more than can be said for a lot of people here who have laid back on the strawman arguments that CS:GO or dying or something every time it gets pointed out how apathetic and useless they are. People who stick around for rank are disgusting individuals, you've always been kind of disgusting. Unfortunately you weren't weeded out before getting on, and the community went south because of it.

Yes I hate women. Let’s talk about it.

I'm gonna assume you're trolling. If not, you're well and fit for the army. They're gonna make a good little bitch out of you. Have fun.

You don’t have any real arguments because you’re a weak confused little boy. I live for putting people like you in their place and have been doing it for a long time because I enjoy it. There nothing about it that angers me lmao. I’m also a pretty conservative leaning person which makes it all that more satisfying to get people like you going. If you have any real points to make feel free to make them, these kind of posts are boring.

Should join up in Russia, they could use the help. He won't have to flunk out of bootcamp and can die properly for the side he's fighting for.

January 6th happened because our President was such a fucking baby that he couldn't handle that he lost the election, he quite literally called for his base to walk on the capital and set forth a plan to try to not let Congress certify the results of the Electoral College. He made Congress certifying a vote into trying to sabotage the process and claim that the election had been stolen from him. He was claiming that the election was a sham before it even happened and continued long after it was clear that it was legit. If he gave a fuck about the safety of his colleagues or the American people he would not have done this. You don't have an opposing viewpoint, and you are actually spewing the same shit that literal China & Russian propaganda machines pump out online to seed dissent in the same country that you claim to love. That isn't a throw away line, it happens everyday and it is baked into everything that you read. News organizations, and I know this may be a huge surprise to you- happen to be multi-national business conglomerates and if they aren't manipulating what you see then the countries themselves are doing it for them. There is an information war, it's not a conspiracy. Every country is spying on one another, hacking one another, supplying each others enemies and pumping out propaganda. This is the world we live in. You can put your blinders on and pretend that it doesn't happen and that it's a throw away line by the libtards but it's really not. It's a fact. You are bad for our country, your rhetoric is bad for our country. I do think you should leave. There's a formal process for declassifying documents that Trump did not follow and many of the documents that he had have put our national security at risk. I think by the end of the investigation it will come out that agents in the field were exposed, pulled out or perhaps killed due to complete negligence. I don't have to talk to you nicely when you spread lies with no evidence. People like you are not patriots, you are ruining our country. You don't have any fundamental political views other than wanting to be involved in something. Go find god if that's your M.O. Find a hobby. There's no reason to try to hold an opinion and repeat things you clearly know jackshit about.

Unironically the best post I've ever read in this section god bless you.

There's definitely a gap in logic in the US encouraging people to get degrees by getting involved to begin with and now they've had to backpedal on the idea that these degrees were actually an "investment" in our economy. If the government getting involved and driving up the price of college to begin with worked then everyone would be generating so much excess value that these loans would be paying off themselves. Having an educated, well-informed, free-thinking populace is paramount to our country keeping it's current quality of life but we're becoming a country that is highly susceptible to propaganda and that's going to become a huge issue when more of these very expensive, very badly executed plans continue to pop up. With all that being said, I think the hit job on US students was pretty insane and I don't think half a trillion is being wasted if we recognize this monumental error & don't make it again.

He had 184 classified documents many of which were top-secret & there is a mountain of evidence that January 6th was a planned attempt at undermining US democratic elections. I can't see this post as anything but trolling but you have a 2020 join date & it's showing. If you are this deluded and greater than 21 I honestly suggest you turn the PC & propaganda reels off for awhile. It's doing damage to your brains ability to process simple information and come to logical conclusions (pre-frontal cortex). Other countries have massive campaigns to manipulate the information you are getting, and unfortunately traitors like you with this underdeveloped portion of your brain (probably made worse by COVID) are more likely to believe lies & create the kind of issues our country doesn't need. If you are unable to overcome this problem consider learning a marketable skill & leaving the country for somewhere else. I'd definitely consider Russia or China if you want to continue to spout the same lines their troll farms are putting online- but that's just me.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/14/suicide-capitol-police-00051598 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/loner-gunman-attacked-fbi-office-was-navy-vet-drove-fast-was-devoted-d-rcna42937 There's nothing to worry about guys, people in our country aren't rabid dogs at all.

People who try to replace a forum/website with a Discord server need to be slapped in the mouth. Unless you're one of these huge weird Discord servers that exists only for people to join in mass quantity it never works. There's a lot you can do with a Discord server, but there's nothing special about Discord when everyone can make one and people like the control to just have their own. That is why Discord is popular, it is NOT because it just enables people to have communities or run them as an extension of their business. Enhancing a Discord server with bots in a meaningful non-ridiculous way similar to how call admin was utilized is good, once you start going beyond that I question whether the person is somehow deluded themselves into thinking they're gonna kit their Discord server out in a way that matters. It's the type of over the top bullshit people try to sell as if it's going to make a difference to any user. This forum software is ridiculously easy to use and has a pretty large body of plugins already made for it which cuts out a lot of the work of starting from scratch. There's no reason to try to pursue Discord at the cost of the Forums whatsoever or compare the two. Discord is used for people to talk to each other while they game, and to sometimes stream to each other (I give it that, it's a good feature). That is all it is and no matter how many new features they add that is all it will ever be.

Opinion: This is the end for Trump & the cult following are gonna deal with that however they are. The history books will just look back on the US during this time as: uneducated sensitive corrupt (gov backdoored by finance guys who practically invented the economic system current destroying our global economy) (and no its not CapItAliSm) extremist (likely created by living in existentialism from living a country that works like a fkn gameshow) void of justice/ fucked prison/justice system playing from very ahead but losing ground globally pampered/warmongering easily swayed by propaganda (foreign/domestic) too stubborn to solve persistent, partisan issues like inflation(or stuff like COVID for that matter) lucky fat & riddled with disease/mental health problems People will either treat Trump like some martyr and this brand of politics will continue to get more degenerate/ridiculous with/without him OORRRRRR... the US is going to need to think a little bit harder about whether we need anymore populist, narcissist, senile old people in office. People have been much less face to face since COVID and such, I give it like 30% odds that people forget other people are people are and we follow this path to it's bitter end. People tend to be so stupid during an economic downturn I wouldn't be surprised at all if whoever gets handed this grenade before it explodes completely will be used as a scapegoat. Consider not going anywhere that will get you killed!

Kanye x Pete Davidson Kim Kardashian Diss Track

being reg is in now there is no possible way around this

Alright me and Dominic did 2012 & leaked the whole DB- just ban us this has gone too far. He must be stopped.

This but also pretty funny he can just launch nukes & that we needed someone to tell him no to this shitty idea. Lets just keep electing 80 yr old people I'm sure nothing will go wrong.

We cannot decide what inflation is important/real and what isn't, and when we finally take the pain of all of this blatant market manipulation people are going to see these policies for what they were. There are many even now among the Presidents camp who are going out telling people that we are not in a recession. So the inflation isn't real because we've fudged the numbers & forced them artificially low. The recession isn't real because we are going to change the definition of that too, how many quarters of negative growth until we're in a recession, maybe they make it 5? Maybe we're just in an "age of transitory inflation" for the next decade? We are going to ignore the huge bubble in tech which is certainly not this deflationary and what happens when we need to save the economy this ONE LAST TIME when this finally all comes apart? What do we do then? We don't have anything. That is the problem. We don't have anyway to deal with this massive problem they've created, because the problem has been created by everything that they've tried to do to continuously ignore the consequences of an economy run completely manic. COVID did nothing but pop a bubble that has been building for 50 years. How does this at end well for anyone? https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/ https://www.usdebtclock.org/ I think we're in for much higher inflation than is currently happening and think people should find a job where you're as necessary as can be. The Central Banks and Politicians have everyone chasing their tails so much over who's a fat capitalist pig or a mean thieving communist. They're crashing on our global economy in a way that is completely reckless and is going to lower the quality life of everyone.

I thought his fix was pretty simple. You enrich your community with provenly good personality by retroactively saying oopsie & setting up a system that that's a little more fair and can give older staff the opportunity to help without reapplying. Also, Dominic took all the blame in this thread so really we can just cough this one up to too much bureaucracy during his reign & Caution being an absent father who let him be BD to begin with.

@TheZZL @Wawa It's much easier & simpler to say capitalism is to blame when it aligns with your views. Keynes philosophy was legitimately flawed and thought you could augment an economy to make it succeed. The idea that our economy needs our government to follow unemployment & inflation just to keep the foot on the gas pedal & try to never suffer any of the very real consequences has been subsidized by our predatory finance industry, slave labor overseas, military industrial complex/intelligence, and an overly inflated tech sector. China has been happy to sell us slave labor & it makes for cheap goods. The military is happy to apply our foothold. The finance industry in it's infinite wisdom is running the same simulation of overinvesting in tech & hoping it's deflationary enough to not be worth nothing. Only now that rates are already so low and we've already lobbed so many nukes at the problems since the 70's people don't want to admit that there was never any real solution or remedy in introducing such huge pressures. The economy is like a heroin addict & no one wants to be the one in charge when it finally detoxes. It has become a game of hot potato to so fierce that other countries are involved & it is more than a little obvious how the economy has been run way too hot. There's nothing free market about introducing such huge pressures and it is a straight up fact that the US is a mixed economy. Why are we perpetuating such blatant falsehoods?

Something you should not admit even at gunpoint.

get owned

They would have to increase rates************* quite a lot to dampen spending, especially when the measures of inflation are complete horseshit & the federal reserve does not take it's own standards seriously enough to act when they think inflation is transitory. Our economy is fucked, but so are others who have followed the same model & we'll all suffer different consequences as we've already seen. COVID and the Trade War + the reserve increasing rates popped the bubble we've been building sitting at near 0% rates since 2000's. The government has also been recklessly spending across the board, both sides are guilty of it. Whether it's a tax cut without proportional budget cuts or a huge program. The idea that the US economy will off ramp & we'll all be wicked educated with our tons of student debt, low interest rate houses where you rent out to a tenant (free money dude!1!!!1!), and all of this shit we've been "investing" in has been worth it is such a pipe dream. Our government stopped being about making a system that works for everyone a long time ago. It's not explicitly socialist leaning or overtly capitalist either, I don't think that government bailing out huge businesses is something overtly capitalist especially when the systems we set up are pilfered in fraud during a global pandemic XD. People who needed that COVID relief for their businesses couldn't get jackshit sometimes and meanwhile criminals stole billions & billions of dollars from it. Our system is like this because the narrative is extremist & so extremist that is has literally whittled away the concept of our money as something that will become devalued & at the same time there are no protections for those who are going to be boxed out of the economy while the government swoops in to save those who are deemed too big to fail. All in all though, it's important to remember that this time when we're fucked we're already so close to 0% rates and so terribly behind real inflation that the kind of shit that we're going to experience is going to make the peak of the 1970's look like nothing lol. So much more is going to bleed from tech than already has, it's going to be historic. also Keynesian*

Your reply to Caution perfect makes sense if you think that the change to the ranks wasn't a spit in the face to a lot of people, and that a ton of people who did a ton of work around that time were kinda fucked from having a recognition rank. Shit happens y'know, sometimes you do something and it doesn't land. I don't think the intention of the team behind it was to chastise people but I think there was definitely some personal shit that got caught in the process. It was always like that to a degree but for the most part I thought it was fair. Before the rework, I stepped down after yelling at Caution in a meeting and the thing was pretty nuts & still got LG. For the record by the way, I am not talking about myself. If I had not gotten myself banned I might have been a VT post-rework if they wanted to do what they did to some others. This is kind of a hot take I suppose, but I think there's some people who have done so much work that they should be an LG or who were such a huge presence that they're fitting of it. SG used to be super rich in character despite being really dramatic as fuck. I'm not going to sit and proactively nominate these people myself, but if we can at the very least admit that in hindsight many people felt they had their time at the community summed up unfairly & judged harshly for a change that didn't really need to be done I think that'd be fair. I'm sure many still do feel that way. Whether they thought they should have LG if they were HG or VT if they were LG or some people who should be LG but are a Regular lol.

Haha what? These are very cherrypicked points and you're completely taking what I said out of the context skipping completely past things I explained in my post. Secondly, super over aggressive and accusatory for what? No one is impressed, calm down bro. I'm not going to get into an argument with you about these things at risk of completely derailing this thread but there was definitely points where people above AT+ did NOT act in the best interest of the overall ZE community here at SG & I believe it failed where it otherwise could have succeeded. If this is some kind of foreign idea to you that is in no way humanly possible idk what to tell you dude. People aren't infallible and most creative ventures fail. If you want to cope about it & rage by saying I'm anti-management that's good for you dog, I don't care- It is what it is. I've been accused of much worse. It's an unpaid role most often filled by people until 25, you can't expect to get the all-star squad year after year that keeps shit rolling perfectly for a fucking decade. In terms of how long communities have lasted, SG's been around pretty damn long & has outlived many others. At times some of the staff did a kickass job & others did not for all of the common human reasons that any other thing earthly creation would fail. I have given a ton of praise to good iterations of managers & been by there side to support them and this community by putting hundreds if not prolly thousands of hours to help literally do the work myself. I also encouraged us to try to venture from but not abandon CS:GO to diversify in the event that things got rocky. Supported and played on more than many ventures like Garry's Mod and Rust who's community server numbers have been pretty sound & are still pretty good. I have more than enough experience to make these judgements, and if you disagree that's fine but I have reasons & credibility behind what I'm saying. I am literally one of the people who used to harp on the idea that even if a server has failed on other games that it's better to be objective about why it failed than to just say "haha unlucky" and move on forever. There was always past managers coming out of the woodwork with 1800-excuses getting all worked up and offended about it too, it was insane. I will say these things now, and keep it short and this is NOT TO THROW SHADE AT THE MANAGERS OR HIGHER-UPS but because you're making it out like I am just saying something with no evidence or benefit of hindsight. TTT I expressed concerns over it being on a downturn and things that should change & none of those things were done up until recently where the server sits pretty much dead. JB has had almost no major changes to it in a long time, events have been the same rotation since 2018 where the management team I was on left it & the major systems we added around the same time are also pretty much exactly the same. The drama IMO that put the nail in the coffin for ZE at the end could have been handled more mature from everyone involved. There are hella more reasons how these 3 got the way they are, but this is the best way I can sum it up. If you wanna get in deep with me about I'm more than willing to discuss it off of this thread (Junkie#9287). I will earmark this post by also pointing out that the servers you're mentioning (TTT, ZE) were pretty niche to begin with and existed under a pretty few number of servers that were NA based. CS:GO had a shifting popularity & has had a growing popularity of other servers for awhile. Despite that, the main servers that competed alongside us in these 3 categories such as eGo or GFL are still very much alive, holding the highest ranks in CS:GO. It's a bit hard to believe that SG couldn't find some 128 people to fill 3 servers & that the fault lays entirely on NA CS:GO lol. SG could be where eGo is right now, it's not a crazy idea or argument for me to make. There exists a timeline where that reasonably happened. Are there servers that existed alongside us- that sold admin, had shoddy ownership or who's servers were nearly not objectively fun that died? Yeah. I used to go on the other Jailbreak servers and wonder how in the flying fuck they had any players when you get gunned down 5 seconds after cells open & sit afk for 10 minutes waiting for the round to end. I used to wonder the same about the micspam on SG's JB & when we had control of the server we worked to fix that. None of this is any surprise in my opinion- It's harder to run ZE, TTT, JB than to throw a Bhop or Surf server together & call it a day. This isn't some new fangled idea that the preference and populace of the game had shifted alongside that. You could go back & find threads or one-off pushes to these other servers based on this idea that actually showed promise & probably could of succeeded in a broader scope... other times the servers failed based on human error. Again, sometimes things get in the way even if someone has the best intentions and things don't workout. You're hard pressed on one sentence I wrote and ignored the rest of my post where I added much greater context to the situation, that much is obvious to me. Explained my feelings about the current situation & a pretty constructive way to move on. The reason for moving on in my opinion though, should be out of the overall interest at the community. Making this move on the false pretense that SG can't get any of the servers on NA CS:GO working or shift servers with the meta of the game & not acknowledge how the community got here could set it up for failure in the future. Wherever it goes I hope there's passion in that area, because I have yet to really see people who were super passionate about a project produce something fun at this community & have it just sit at bottom of the barrel in terms of players. I log in like once a month or few months. Don't bother responding to me with anymore soap box bullshit if you're expecting a response, find sm1 else to do that shit with cause on god I know you wouldn't approach someone privately & act like this. It has to be fosho or to blow off steam.